Study: Abortion rate at lowest point since 1973 — The abortion rate in the United States dropped to its lowest point since the Supreme Court legalized the procedure in all 50 states, according to a study suggesting that new, long-acting contraceptive methods are having a significant impact in reducing unwanted pregnancies.

Senators: Kerry Admits Obama's Syria Policy Is Failing — In a closed-door meeting, two senators say, the Secretary of State admitted to them that he no longer believes the administration's approach to the crisis in Syria is working. Peace talks have failed, he conceded …

Trick Websites Dupe Democrats Into Donating To Republicans — The National Republican Congressional Committee has set up a number of websites that look like they could be a Democratic candidate's campaign page, unless you read the fine print. They may even violate a Federal Election Commission regulation …

Betrayed by the President and ObamaCare — ObamaCare was supposed to help me. — That's all I could think as I sat in the House of Representatives last Tuesday night as the guest of my congresswoman, only a few hundred feet away from President Obama as he gave his State of the Union address.

Here, Let Ezra Explain — What is D.C.'s most famous young policy wonk doing leaving the Washington Post? Trying to start a news organization he thinks could one day eclipse it. — On January 24, at five in the morning after his final day at the ­Washington Post …

HealthCare.gov can't handle appeals of enrollment errors — Tens of thousands of people who discovered that HealthCare.gov made mistakes as they were signing up for a health plan are confronting a new roadblock: The government cannot yet fix the errors. — Roughly 22,000 Americans …

TRANSCRIPT: Bill O'Reilly interviews President Obama — BILL O'REILLY, HOST: Mr. President, thank you for doing this. — BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Great to be with you. — O'REILLY: Really appreciate it. — I want to get some things on the record.

How Obamacare killed immigration reform — Barack Obama has all but conceded his lame-duck status. His State of the Union address was bereft of big ideas. And his declaration that he will use his “pen and a phone” to issue a raft of executive orders is an admission of political impotence …

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